Fox News’ Dr. Siegel: Obamacare Means Too Many People Will Get Health Care

Last night, Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel once again complained about Obamacare. His beef? Too many people will get medical attention as a result. Only on Fox News would a doctor who wants people to get less health care be on the payroll. And be allowed to air this bellyaching repeatedly.

On the Hannity show last night, Siegel said:

Before they started this, we were all in trouble with insurance to begin with. There’s too much health insurance. It covers too much.Too many people have it and they can’t get in my office to see me. I’m full. …I can’t see all these people.

There’s a shortage of doctors. So what do they do? They’re going to pay us less.

As I wrote in my post on Addicting Info (where I go into more detail):

Sadly, this is far from the first time Siegel has made such comments on Fox’s airwaves. Last month, Siegel also complained people will get too much health care under Obamacare. In August, he griped that the Affordable Care Act’s “entitlement coverage” will cost him and his already-covered patients too much. He said, “If you can’t get in to see us or we’re ordering very expensive tests that are variable prices, there’s no way that we can afford it, there’s no way we can keep practicing medicine the way we want to.”

Or to put it another way, as far as Siegel is concerned, health care is only for the elite who can afford it. And let’s make sure there are not too many of those so that his pocketbook doesn’t suffer. As for everyone else? Well they can just go bankrupt from medical costs or stop clogging up doctors’ offices altogether and die quickly.

Gee, it sounds to me as if the ACA might fall into that market based supply and demand genre of Capitalism that goes against the supply side economics that has been proven NOT to work for, I don’t know…some 40+ years since it was invented in the ’70. But this Keynesian Demand Side economics, that would expand the need for doctors, that one might call a Job Creator, and HAS been proven, with empirical data since…. for ever to work, is just wrong. We only have so many doctors right now, to treat so many patients because only so many people have insurance. But if EVERYBODY who needs a doctor has insurance? Well than there will be a need for MORE doctors and I wont be so special anymore and that will cause competition. My lifestyle (and my overcharging) can not exist in a free market so this MUST be stopped.

Only in America could you propose expanding a businesses customer base by some 15 million people, and have the business fight tooth and nail against it. Its called Greed, Selfishness, Overindulgence. Doctors without Morals.

Siegel has been basically shameless about this for years. He tries to sound like he’s worried about patients having access to docs, but one he starts yapping hysterically, it’s clear his only real concern is that he and other highly paid docs might not be able to have the income of rock stars that they’re used to.